Summer Solstice ☀️
First, It’s been a while. Where have I been? I will likely write a post answering that question but the short of it is that I was writing a book(eeekkk), and I decided to give that my full attention. Thanks to the time I’ve been away, I have a lot of blog post ideas and I’m excited to commit to this space in earnest this next half of the year.
So Summer Solstice. I was inspired by Hailee Steinfeld’s newsletter to put an impromptu summer bucketlist. Mine is more of a summer goal list however. And, it’s a pretty ambitious list, which is on brand. To relieve the pressure on myself, I’ve broken the list into two groups: “what I can control” and “Up to the fates”
💛 What I can control:
Publish a sunlightcorner blog post weekly
Send out a monthly newsletter
Learn French
No Screen Saturdays (could be sundays or whole weekends depending on what the week is looking like)
Take piano lessons, learn a song and perform it live at the end of the summer. This is where it gets scary ambitious but what is life if we don’t do things that scare us from time to time. I have a vision of joining a competition or open mic in New York for some reason. So this will be the goal.
Saving Goal or Debt Payoff goal. I do not like the heat or summer traveling so the time in doors should give me an opportunity to focus on bolstering my finances. I will write more in depth about my savings plans in a separate post as I hit milestones.
End of Summer Trip to celebrate summer challenge accomplishments (maybe to France to practice the french I am now fluent in with the money I saved.)
💛 Up to the fates
"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be..." I’ve been diving deep into my spiritual practice and accepting the present moment as being true and pure simply because it is. This is something I am working to embody. So for this more ambitious, “manifesty,” wish, I am putting it in its on category. To relieve pressure on myself and accept the outcome with grace and presence whether my efforts produce fruit or not. And accept either those outcomes as good.
Get an awesome agent to represent the fantasy novel I've been writing for over a year. The part I can control is the querying and I plan to compile a list of (2-4) dream agents weekly and carve out time each week to query them.
A bonus up to fate goal | get either a speaking guest spot in a film or TV show.
I’ll set a calendar event and make sure I’m on PTO on the last day of summer to write a little progress report on how I did with this challenge.
I hope this inspires you, dear reader, to make a summer bucket list of your own (or adopt parts of this one, or Hailey’s). Good luck to you if you take on this endeavor. 🌸💖.
Be well, be love.
